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February 20, 2002 - 9:06 p.m.

Common Sense

The local paper is soliciting input from locals to contribute to a new column called "Common Sense".

We're supposed to provide a resume, including experience in community events, and also provide a sample of our writing talent. And we're supposed to give them an idea of what we'll write about. They'll offer a small stipend for our efforts.

Well I'm tempted. I figure I could provide one of my blogs about my crazy-ass kids and I'd be in like Flynn (I always wondered what that meant, but it ends a sentence nicely don't you think?)

I'd like to write about how the city has recently gotten into the real estate business, buying run-down houses on streets where rich and influential people live. They fix them up and then lose money trying to sell them. I figure they might chastise the staff for such muckrakery, but if Joe Sixpack chooses to write about it, they're held harmless.

I walked through that house, it was half assed done at best. Nothing like 20 years of bad tenants to bring a grand old house to it's knees.